If you are trying to compile a particularly large LaTeX document (or one containing hugely complex Tikz diagrams / charts) you may find you run out of memory. After externalising all the Tikz figures, if you still run into the limit you can increase it! [...]

I run CrashPlan on a variety of devices, but invariably access them in a "headless" manner from a computer running Xubuntu (currently 14.04).

After upgrading to 14.04, however, CrashPlan stopped working. This is a known problem, but unfortunately they haven't fixed the issue - simply created an obscure post so people can apply a workaround themselves! [...]

Some processes can be happily run on a regular basis using cron. If you want to start a process every time the system is rebooted, however, it's possible that you want to be able to interact with the process (rather than just letting it run completely in the background).

Fortunately, processes can be started within a tmux session - meaning that you can reconnect to the session whenever you want! [...]

Although I only have a single device running XBMC, I've set up a shared library mainly so that I can reinstall RaspBMC (or switch to OpenElec, etc) whenever I want without having to worry about the library. Another benefit is that I can run the shared library using MySQL (stored on a USB Hard Drive) on a BeagleBone Black - with a more powerful CPU, and directly connected to my media!